Study: Millennials have fewer sexual partners than grandparents

Despite these hook-up apps in the age of “friends with benefits,” new research from San Diego State University has found that members of the so-called millennial generation have fewer sexual partners than people who came of age in the 1950s and 1960s.

The study found “Baby Boomers and Generation X had an average of 11 sexual partners while millennials born in the 1980s and 1990s have 8 sexual partners,” newseveryday.com reported.

The data show there is a schism in the views on promiscuity and premarital sex among the age groups, with the older generations having more conservative opinions.

“Millennials are more accepting of premarital sex than any previous generation, yet have had fewer sexual partners than GenX’ers. This is consistent with their image as a tolerant, individualistic generation accepting others’ choices and making their own,” said lead researcher Jean M. Twenge in the newseveryday.com story.